Category: Eating In
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
…because some things are worth trying again after the first time didn’t quite turn out 10 years ago. Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Source recipes: the first search result off google + Food Network combinations Ingredients: Leftover pumpkin seeds from carving 2 medium-large pumpkins Arbitrary Amounts of… Salt Olive Oil Seasoning combinations (amounts to taste): BBQ: brown…
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Leftovers Congee with Faux Fish Katsu and Crispy Garlic
Dear Readers -all five of you’s (besides the spammers), Besides being busy with real life, I’ve had a few dud recipes I am still tinkering with before I admit to having tried them at all. I have more busy life adventures coming up too, so this blog may continue to fall off… When I’m 80…
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Celery Chicken Saute
What to do when your homegrown celery threatens to grow into a small, unchewable forest? Chop it all down, make celery chicken, (and take the rest to work). This is a combination I started around 2006 on one of those days when there wasn’t much left in the fridge and I thought, “what goes good…
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Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie
Update note from the author: as you shop for Thanksgiving, grab some puff pastry for this delicious recipe for your leftover turkey! Make sure to read to the end for the full wait time and pro-tips on cooling steps. As a child growing up in the Midwest with home-cooked Chinese food for dinner, microwave dinners…
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Panzanella: no-cook recipe #3 for the summer heat
So I was looking for a swift way to use all the tomato loot from my garden in the warm summer days, while still getting the individual flavors of them.. Cribbed and modified from Ina Garten’s Panzanella recipe from Food network. Ingredients 3 tablespoons good olive oil 1 small French bread or boule, cut into…
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Oven-baked Sweet Plantains
In honor of the South American countries and their gracious hosting of the World Cup: baked plantains. A little late in posting, but better than never. Recipe was from my local grocery store (see photo)! Ingredients: 1 plantain (ripe = black spots all over) high heat cooking oil and a pastry brush, or just cooking…
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Heat Wave, Part II:
Gazpacho!Mark Bitterman‘s Gazpacho recipe and some tips from my friend Katherine got me to try making gazpacho about a year ago, and tonight’s continued hot humid weather in the Northwest called for a revisit of cooking without heating elements. Unfortunately, I failed at that last bit, since I like my onions and garlic sautéed instead…
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“Heat Wave!”
Frozen Coconut LimeadeHere in the Northwest, this week has a “heat wave” forecasted, by which I mean highs in the low 80s and somewhat sunny. Possibly laughable in the rest of the U.S., yes, but still a great excuse to try Smitten Kitchen’s Frozen Coconut Limeade. Did I mention I’ve been in a coconut obsessed phase? Anything…
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Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossoms
Had some freshly-fallen zucchini squash blossoms in the garden I’ve been busying myself with.. So I cribbed a recipe for goat cheese stuffed squash blossoms from Gena Knox for a trial run, baking at 350 for 15-20 minutes. 2018 post-script note: since the source URL appears to have morphed and eliminated the recipe, here it is,…